Vast amounts of cultivars of native plants are annually introduced into the semi-natural range of their wild relatives for re-vegetation and restoration. As cultivars are often selected towards enhanced biomass production and might transfer these traits into wild relatives by hybridization, it is suggested that cultivars and the wild × cultivar hybrids are competitively superior to their wild r...

Sorbus torminalis (WILD SERVICE TREE) is described and illustrated. It a species relatively isolated from its relatives, but role as parental taxon of hybridogenic noted. Notes on usage, cultivation propagation are included.

One prominent concern about genetically modified crops is the possibility of environmental impacts from the movement of fitness-enhancing traits to wild plant populations. Decisions to deregulate Bt crops in the USA have relied strongly on arguments that these crops will not interbreed with wild relatives in the permitted growing regions. Limited attention therefore has been directed to analyse...

The likelihood of transgene movement into wild relatives of cultivated crops varies vary dramatically with geography. From the perspective of the UK, crops such as maize lack any close relatives and so effectively cannot act as a source for transgene recruitment into wild plant species. At the other extreme, forage grasses such as Lolium perenne are wind pollinated and have abundant wild popula...

Food security requires the development and deployment of crop varieties resilient to climate variation and change. The study of variations in the genome of wild plant populations can be used to guide crop improvement. Genome variation found in wild crop relatives may be directly relevant to the breeding of environmentally adapted and climate resilient crops. Analysis of the genomes of populatio...

34 Despite possessing related ancestral genomes, hexaploid wheat behaves as a diploid 35 during meiosis. The wheat Ph1 locus promotes accurate synapsis and crossover of 36 homologous chromosomes. Interspecific hybrids between wheat and wild relatives are 37 exploited by breeders to introgress important traits from wild relatives into wheat, 38 although in hybrids between hexaploid wheat and wil...

Abstract. Abduraimov OS, Maxmudov AV, Kovalenko I, Allamurotov AL, Mavlanov BJ, Shakhnoza SU, Mamatkasimov OT. 2023. Floristic diversity and economic importance of wild relatives cultivated plants in Uzbekistan (Central Asia). Biodiversitas 24: 1668-1675. The countries Central Asia are considered one the Centers origin their relatives. Indigenous people have used these for several centuries. Ou...